Wire-gate fastener.



A. EDWARDS. WIRE GATE FASTENER. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 19, 1909.

919,705. Patented Apr.27, 1909.

ABLE EDWARDS, or PUEB O, COLORADO.

WIRE-GATE FASTENER;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, mos.

Application filed January 19, 1909. Serial No. 473,159.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, ABLE EDWARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo, State of Colorado,

have invented certain new and useful 1111- provements in V-Iire-Gate Fasteners and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to gate structures, more articularly to the class known as flexib e or frameless gates, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

With this and other objects in view the invention consists n certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and de scribed and then specifically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved device with the gate in closed position 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, enlarged, of the double drum detached. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the drum bracket detached.

The improved device may be located in connection with any of the various forms of fences, but is more particularly adapted for use in connection with farm fences, and may be employed with an ordinary wire fence, or other forms of fences, as may be referred.

The improved gate is designe to be ar ranged between two posts 10-11 spaced apart at the sides of the gateway o ening in the usual manner, the fence materia such as the strand wires 12 being connected to the posts, as shown. l

The gate portion of the improved device comprises two rigid end members 1314 coupled by spaced flexible members 15. The flexible members are preferably formed in one single piece laced back and forth between the rigid end members, the end members having spaced a erture's indicated at 16 to receive the flexib e members.

Attached to the posts 10 are hanger dcvices or keepers 1718 in which the rigid member 13 is supported. Connected to the post 11 is a link 19 into which the lower end of the rigid member 14 is adapted to be Fig.

' through this opening is a cable 31.

stepped, while the upper end of the post receives the straining mechanism or device by which the gate is supported in position, and the means whereby this strain is applied constitutes the principal portion of the invention. I

Connected to the upper portion of the post 10 is a bracket formed from a single sheet of metal 29 having a relatively large central opening 21 and with spaced clefts in its side edges, whereby a plurality of tongues are released and adapted to be bent at right angles to the body of the plate, the tongues at the ends bent tobear upon opposite sides of the post 11, while the tongues 23 are bent away from the post and form bearings for a shaft 24.

Mounted upon the shaft 24 is a drum formed with two faces 2526 of different diameters, the two )ortions of the drum separated by an annu ar flange 27 the latter provided with a transverse a erture 28.

Formed upon or connecte to the double drum is a ratchet wheel 29, and swinging upon the post 11 is a pawl 30 adapted to engage with the ratchet wheel. The post 11 is provided with a transverse aperture opposite the opening 21 of the bracket, and extending One end of the cable is connected to the post 11 and the cable is then carried around the rigid gate member 14, as shown at 32, and then and then through the aperture 28 and around the larger drum portion 25, and the other terminal of the cable connected at 33 to the post 11. By this simplemeans it will be obvious that when a pulling force is applied to the portion of the cable leading from the larger drum portion, the double drum will be rotated and the cable wound thereon and the strain applied to the rigid member'14 of the gate at its upper end, and this strain communicated to the flexible members 15. The differences in size of the drum portions give a material advantage to the operation of the cable, the difference in leverage between the drum portions being in favor of the operator, who is thus enabled to apply a relatively strong strain upon the gate struc and applied to gates of various sizes, and to gates employed in connection with various l'orms ol l'ences.

W hat is claimed, is

1. In a structure of the class described, spaced l'ence posts, a gate including a movable post, means for detachabl; connecting said movable post to one of said spaced posts, a drum having two faces of difl'erent diameters, means for mounting said drum l'or rotation upon one oi said spaced posts, a cable connected at one end to said last mentioned spaced post and passing thence around the movable gate post and thence around the smaller of said drum surl'aces and thence around the larger drum surl'ace, and means for holding said drum from movement in one direction.

2. In a structure oi the class described, spaced posts, a gate including a movable end member, means lor connecting said movable gate member to one of said spaced posts, a drum having two surfaces ol' dii'ierent diameters and separated by an intermediate flange, means for mounting said drum for rotation upon said last mentioned spaced post, a cable connected at one end to one olsaid spaced posts and extending around the movable gate post, and thence around the smaller drum face and around the larger drum face and means for holding said drum l'rom movement in one direction.

3. A structure of the class described co1nprising spaced posts, a gate lormed with rigid end members and flexible longitudinal members, means [or connecting one ol' said rigid members to one of said spaced posts, a bracket l'ormed from a sheet of metal having a central aperture and a plurality olspaced cle'lts in its sides whereby a plurality of ears are produced and bent in opposite directions, one set of said ears being engaged with one ol' said spaced posts, a shalt mounted l'or relation through the other set ol' said ears, a

drum carried by said shalt and having two surl'aces oi dill'erent diameters, said drum having an annular l'lange between its surfaces and provided with a transverse aperture, a cable passing through said llauge ap erture and wound respectiwl'y around said drum surfaces in opposite directions, said cable leading from the smaller drum surl'aee and around the movable gate member and connected at its terminal to the adjacent spaced post, and a cable extending l'rom the larger drum surl'ace and constituting a pull cable, and means for holding said drum l'roni movement in one direction.

In testimony whereol', l, allix my signature in presence oltwo witnesses.

AB LE ED WA llDS. Witnesses JOHN BYRNES, C. HonLBoe. 

